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glabrous or pubescent and glandular; cymes opposite, 

 forming a terminal panicle, reaching 15 cM. in length; 

 calyx truncate or with 2—5 very small teeth, cup-shaped, 

 0.2—0.25 cM. long, 0.25—0.3 cM. in diam., with 2 small, 

 linear bracteoles at the base, sparsely pubescent and 

 glandular without, glabrous or with some hairs within; 

 corolla pale-blue within, reddish without or whitish, 

 2-lipped, 5-lobed; tube pubescent and glandular without, 

 except in the lower part, glabrous within, except for the 

 villous throat; 0.3—0.4 cM. long; smaller 4 lobes ovate, 

 0.1—0.15 cM. long, papillose within, pubescent and gland- 

 ular without, the larger 5th 0.2 — 0.25 cM. long, villous 

 inside; stamens little exserted, filaments stout, inserted in 

 the throat, anthers reniform, dark-violet, with divergent 

 fissures; style as long as the corolla 0.6 cM., apex shortly 

 bifid; ovary depressed; glabrous, sparsely glandular; fruit 

 seated on or half-enclosed in the slightly enlarged calyx, 

 glabrous, 0.6 cM. long, 0.5 cM. in diam., dark-violet. 



Var. a. typica H. J. Lam nov. var. — V. monophylla 

 K. Schum. in K. Sckum. u. Hoik., Fl. Kais.-Wilh.-land, 

 121 (1889); K. Schum. u. Lauterb., Fl. D. Siidsee, 524 — 

 V. punctata Schau. DC. Prodr. XI, 687; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 bat. II, 863; Merrill. Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. XI, 310 — 

 foliola utrinque glaberrima vel in costa supra nonnullis 

 pilis vestita. 



MoLUCCA-lSL.: in H. L B. sub no. 908.353—297, 



Ternate; native name: govasa gabba gabba — de Vriese 

 and Teysmann in H. L. — B. sub no. 908.267—273, Ceram — 

 in H. A. R.— T. sub no. 011523, Halmaheira — Rein- 

 wardt no. 1465, Saparua. 



Celebes: Elbert no. 2732, Buton-isl., Lipumangan, 

 250—320 M. in alt., fr. on 22-VIII-1909 — Heyne no. 

 2821, Boni. — 



New-Guinea: Weinland no. 155, Kais.-Wilh.-land, 

 Finschhafen; native name; matatakum, flow, in March. 



